1. What is Best Documentary Short Subject nominee Pinki about?
A. A world champion dog groomer.
B. An Indian girl with a cleft palate.
C. A family's struggle with a child born with severe autism.
D. A witness to Martin Luther King's murder.

2. "The Newest Coach In The NBA Has Got The Knicks Right Where She Wants Them." What is that?
A. January Girl: One of three projects Angelina Jolie has in development.
B. It's on the poster for Best Original Screenplay nominee Courtney Hunt's (Frozen River) next project.
C. The tagline for Eddie, where Frank Langella and Whoopi Goldberg met and started their affair.
D. Ad campaign for Fox mid-season replacement Getting Air, which stars Elissa Knight (the voice of Wall-E's Eve).

3. Which of the following lines of dialogue were not spoken by Josh Brolin to Jeffrey Wright in the back seat of a squad car:
A. "You can't say anything, man. I'm the only who can motherfucking say anything."
B. "They maced me, man. They maced the shit out of me."
C. "My wife's gonna be so happy."
D. "Eight time's a charm. [Laughs]"

4. What does Kym munch on when she returns from the rehearsal dinner in Rachel Getting Married. What's notable about it?
A. A bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch—which was her brother's favorite cereal, making her dad really sad.
B. A piece of chicken, which becomes the source of a huge fight between she and Rachel, because Kym just told the rehearsal dinner that she had "was dabbling in veganism," among other rambling, self-absorbed thoughts.
C. A slice of watermelon with a magically disappearing and reappearing bite taken out of it.
D. A slice of her sister's wedding cake.

5. Name two of Heath Ledger's stated influences—a movie and a real person—in creating The Joker:
A. A Clockwork Orange and Sid Vicious
B. My Left Foot and Iggy Pop
C. The Silence of the Lambs and Dick Cheney
D. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Pee-wee Herman

6. Gus Van Sant has released two albums. Which of the following is a real title of one of them?
A. "Blueberry Jam"
B. "Confederate Drinking Songs"
C. "18 Songs About Golf"
D. "Slides and Grinds"

7. This is makeup effects artist Greg Cannom's ninth Oscar nomination, and would be his fourth win if he takes the prize for Benjamin Button. In 1993, he competed against himself, and won for Dracula. What was the other nominated film?
A. Wayne's World
B. Hocus Pocus
C. Malcolm X
D. Hoffa

8. List the Best Picture nominees from lowest to highest budget.
$15 million —
$20 million —
$25 million —
$32 million —
$150 million —

9. What is Japan's Best Foreign Film submission, Departures, about?
A. It's the story of a "nokanshi," or a japanese mortician.
B. It's the true story of a middle-aged Japanese business man who quits his job to become one of the most powerful pimps in Tokyo.
C. It's about a stewardess, and the abusive relationship she can't escape despite spending her life on jet planes.
D. It revolves around the lives of several children living in a Nagasaki orphanage.

10. What did Marisa Tomei play on an episode of The Simpsons?
A. Movie star Sara Sloane, who falls in love with Ned Flanders.
B. A ballet teacher who teaches Bart how to plie.
C. Apu's fiancee Manjula.
D. Erin, a new friend of Lisa's at school.
E. None of the above.

Scroll down for answers:

1. B, 2. C, 3. D, 4. C, 5. A, 6. C, 7. D, 8. Slumdog, Milk, Frost/Nixon, The Reader, Button, 9. A, 10. A

Three of these meetings actually happened, according to the Times website. Three just happened the way I imagined they would were I a reporter assigned to watch various other foreign dignitaries harmlessly shaking hands and exchanging niceties with Sarah Palin before being ushered off to exchange more niceties and possibly a game recipe or two. Guess which is which!

1. Talking Georgia With Kissinger

Gov. Sarah Palin wrapped her first day of motorcade diplomacy with a 90-minute meeting with Henry Kissinger, where they spoke about Georgia. Ms. Palin and Mr. Kissinger sat on blue couches, separated by an end table with photographs of President Nixon and President Reagan on it.

As photographers were led in, Mr. Kissinger could be heard saying that he gave someone “a lot of credit for what he did in Georgia,” according to a reporter who was allowed to watch.

“Good, good,’’ Ms. Palin said. “And you’ll give me more insight on that, also, huh? Good.”

The photographers were ushered out. When Ms. Palin emerged from the building, a news producer asked her how it went, and she mouthed the words, “It was great.”

2. Palin meets her old "Sister" Mayor.

One familiar face in what would be a long string of otherwise new acquaintances was Sergey Alexandrov, the mayor of Mirny, a town of about 40,000 in Russia's mineral-rich far east that is Wasilla's partner in the international "citizen diplomacy" network program Sister Cities International. A McCain staffer told a reporter had visited Alaska in 1998 or 1999.

A tall, ruddy man who appears to be in his mid-fifties, Mr. Alexandrov greeted Ms. Palin with a small bow and a handshake, then made a hand gesture that was an apparent comment on the vice presidential nominee's height. Ms. Palin pointed to the heel of her black pump.

A staffer said the pair had engaged in a "spirited" debate following Mr. Kissinger's remarks.

3. Palin and Karzai Bond Over Children

When Gov. Sarah Palin sat down with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on Tuesday afternoon, the polite preliminaries to their conversation centered around children, as Mr. Karzai spoke of the birth of his first child last year.

“What is his name?” Ms. Palin was heard to ask, as she met with Mr. Karzai in the suite of a midtown hotel, according to a pool report.

“Mirwais,” Mr. Karzai replied. “Mirwais, which means, ‘The Light of the House.’”

“Oh nice,” Palin responded.

“He is the only one we have,” Mr. Karzai said.

4. Palin and Sundaravej talk cooks and cuisine.

For lunch, a security detail whisked Ms. Palin to her next appointment at the Royal Thai Consulate, where she was slated to dine over a briefing on a recent Thai-South Korean trade dispute from former prime minister Samak Sundaravej.

The two entered a dining room through an entrance flanked by gold Bhudda statues and sat at a table set with meat skewers and spring rolls.

"Did you cook all this yourself?" Ms. Palin asked Mr. Sundaravej, according to a photographer, who said the former prime minister explained that the embassy retained a cook on staff for such events.

Ms. Palin jotted notes in a spiral steno pad.

5. Meeting Uribe

The next stop on Governor Palin’s whirlwind diplomatic tour was a meeting with President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia. Mr. Uribe has a warm relationship with Senator John McCain, who paid him a visit during extremely unusual campaign trip to Colombia over the summer where he expressed support for a free trade agreement.

The meeting was held in the residence of the Colombian Mission on the Upper East Side in an ornate room with a pink stuffed chair and a chandelier, according to an account provided by the reporter allowed to accompany her into the event, Ms. Palin was overheard telling Mr. Uribe, “Thank you for your work.’’
Then the motorcade left for a sit-down at Kissinger Associates.

6. A Visitor Ponders The Implications Of A Palin Vice-Presidency

A reporter stationed at another side of the Kissinger Associates building saw Kissinger briefly emerge from a back exit to heartily greet a tall slim man of apparent Arab descent. Mr. Kissinger was overheard wishing the man a happy birthday before apologizing that a surprise guest would be "keeping me all day."

"Like your father, only I am allowed to go to the bathroom," Mr. Kissinger told the guest.

"A woman then!" the man replied. "Let me meet her!"

Mr. Kissinger paused. "Well, you two are about the same age, but she you would never know," he said with a faint chuckle. "Her youth is — in many respects — quite well-preserved."

"Inshallah," the man muttered in response. "Leave it to you, Henry. The one thing Bibi and I agree about…well let's just say this false Jew 'Levi' is on both our do-not-fly lists!"

"Well, you know what I say: even the paranoid have real enemies. And if the enemy of your enemy is your friend…"

"Fuck you."

• "You disappear and then come back and people say, 'Hey, look at that guy.'"
• "His staff should build a podium for him, one that fits, and take it wherever he goes."
• "You know that on some level, at some moment, Dwight D. Eisenhower looked at John F. Kennedy and thought: Punk."
• "Old America: 'We've been here three generations.' New America: 'You're still here?'"
• "The eagle, you will note, is the centerpiece of my flag. It symbolizes freedom. Also the ability to see far away, so you can spot somebody doing something fishy and get him locked up."
• "His father died of AIDS, you asshole"

First four: Noonan
Five: Handey
Six: Gessen

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All are described as "not material" to Google's bottom line in SEC filings.

The Photo District News blog reports:

Freelancers check in at Post HQ in Manhattan, where someone logs the serial numbers of their camera equipment. This is to make sure they have their own pro gear and aren't just borrowing it from other freelancers.

Then the photographers are put in a car and driven up to the Post printing plant in the Bronx. Once there, they must complete three mock assignments:

* Photograph someone through the window of a car.

* Photograph someone leaving a building (as if on a perp walk).

* Photograph a piece of artwork (as if capturing a family photo or other document out in the field).

NY Post Photo Test: Shoot The Perp [PDN Pulse]

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